Michael Persinger

Walter researched brain EEG waves from 0.5 to three hertz, delta region, and found anti-infectious effects.

Additionally, research conducted in the 1980s by Dr. Michael Persinger reported that subjects whose brain were bathed in low-energy electromagnetic fields while wearing a modified helmet experienced a profound otherworldly presence during the research sec- uh, sessions.

The ancients may have seen the electromagnetic forces of the universe as a single common denominator of nature, of all that exists in the physical as well as non-physical world.

If so, they would have seen the electromagnetic spectrum as the medium on which all existence records itself.

Some of these factors include the variance of local magnetic fields, size of location, and lightning-level stimuli of which witnesses may not be consciously aware.

Some researchers, such as Michael Persinger of Laurentian University in Canada, have speculated that changes in geomagnetic fields created by, example given, tectonic stresses in the Earth's crust or solar activity could stimulate the brain's temporal lobes and produce many of the experiences associated with hauntings.

Sound is thought to be another cause of supposed sightings.

Um, Richard Lord and Richard Wiseman concluded that infrasound, which we've talked about on here, infrasound can cause humans to experience bizarre feelings in a room, such as anxiety, extreme sorrow, and a feeling of being watched or even the chills.

The lights that people see, the orbs may trigger something in their subconscious, have a hypnotic effect on them, and then they have the experience.

There's a Canadian by the name of Professor Michael Persinger who's, um, he's famous actually for his development of what he called the God Helmet.

Yeah.

And re- [laughs] reverse engineering the God experience, as he called it.

But what they did was take a motorcycle helmet, put some solenoids on the, on the, on, on the outside of the helmet, and volunteers would wear the helmet.

And they'd induce within the, uh, in the br- over the brain, the field, electromagnetic field changes.

And in doing that, they, they claimed to, uh, Persinger, Persinger claimed to be able to reproduce all the aspects of the near-death experience.

And I think he also claimed to-

[laughs] Okay, good.

There's a psychologist in Canada, his name is Michael Persinger, and he puts helmets on people and gives them low-volt electrical activity.

And when he stimulates the outside of the right temporal lobe, people feel a sensed presence like the presence-

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Now that's not, of course, that's in the olfactory bulb here, but there's a straight highway nerve that goes to the temporal lobe from smell.

So smell is, uh, many times connected to memories, right? Um, and Michael Persinger, a neurologist, he says that people that hallucinate smells, um, they're more likely to have, uh, they're, it's easier for him- them to have awe experiences.

And there's, um, anecdotally, there's like cult leaders like L. Ron Hubbard, like Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, um, who claim or, and might very well have very, very perceptive sense of smell.

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